Watertiger has up her favorite from the New York Daily News contest to photoshop Air Force One into a scene of the reader’s choosing. I liked this one. There are a lot of great candidates.
Archive for April, 2009
“Superbama Returns”
Posted in Comic Relief, photographs, tagged funny pictures, photoshop on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Secure All Beverages.
Posted in Comic Relief, Historical Information, music, tagged hilarious, worst album covers on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Click on the fat guy to go through to see more of the world’s worst album covers.
Hearts Are Blooming.
Posted in Flowers & Other Plants, photographs, tagged Bleeding Heart, dicentra, Photographs, spring flowers on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“That’s not our tortoise, we do not have a missing tortoise”
Posted in Animals, Comic Relief, tagged Bronx, hilarious, lost pets, new york, tortoise on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New York is full of surprises. The Bronx, doubly so. (NYTimes) A 30-inch-long, 60-pound tortoise was discovered in the yard of a Bronx house when a woman came home on Tuesday. [snip] But they don’t know where the owner is. “Nobody has come forward yet to claim: ‘We lost our tortoise. Do you have it?’ [...]
Abortion: “Safe, Legal and Early.”
Posted in health, Historical Information, how we live, tagged abortion, Ellen McCormack, pro-choice, public health on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Steven Waldman at Inside Politics Daily: My fantasy is that if the political system embraced the safe, legal and early doctrine, a few activists might even accept the legitimacy of part of their opponents’ argument. Pro-choicers who accepted this framework would be implicitly conceding that, for at least part of the pregnancy, there’s a “baby” [...]
Got Nasty Bath Towels?
Posted in DIY, how we live, Videos, tagged bath mats, DIY on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Turn them into a super bath mat!
“Cry Me A River”
Posted in music, Videos, tagged American classic songs, Ella Fitzgerald, jazz, Joe Pass, Julie London, music video, Susan Boyle on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mock Paper Scissors posted a video of Julie London covering this great song. It was written for Ella Fitzgerald to perform in the 1955 film Pete Kelly’s Blues but was left out when the songwriter Arthur Hamilton refused to remove the word “plebian” from the lyrics. Susan Boyle performed this American classic beautifully for a [...]
Petenera Flamenco
Posted in music, Videos, tagged flamenco, music, Peteneras, video on April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »